Optus to do midnight launch for Aussie iPhone 4 fans

When Steve Jobs said in his recent press conference that the iPhone4 would be on sale in Australia on Friday July 30th he wasn’t joking.

We’ve had official confirmation that Optus, at least, will be hosting midnight launch parties next Thursday (to be precise the launch will happen at 12:01am on the 30th) in their flagship stores in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Perth.

Being the middle of winter, that news will come as welcome relief to the many people who thought they were going to have to camp in the street throughout the night before they could buy one in the morning.